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UNITED STATES PATENT OF ICE.

AUGUSTUS HARPER RAIGUEL GUILEY, OF SOUTH EASTON, PENNSYLVANIA.

HAT-HOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 366,477, dated July 12, 1887.

Application filed February 2, 1887. Serial No, 226,273. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AUGUSTUS HARPER RAIGUEL GUILEY, of South Easton, in the county of Northampton and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Hat-Hook, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to a hook for supportinghats clear of the floor or of seats, where they would be liable to soiling, crushing, or other injury, or to be lost; and the invention has for its object to provide a simple, inexpensive, and effective device of this character.

The invention will first be particularly described, and then pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a hat hung from a chair-back by my improved hat-hook. Fig. 2 is a view of a portion of a hat-crown at the sweat-band, which is partly broken away, and shows how the hook is attached to the hat and how itis carried when out of use; and Fig. 3 is a side view of the hook proper in closed condition and a elastic band.

The hat-hook device comprises a hook, A, made preferably of elastic brass wire, and a ribbon or cord, B, to which the hook is at tached, preferably by sewing it to an eye, a, of the hook. In the preferred form of the device a fastening, O, is used, which, when first made, is in staple form, and when the -end of the ribbon or cord B is attached, by

I sewing or otherwise, to the center bar of the fastening the latter is passed points first between the hat-body D and the sweat-band E, and the two side parts of the staple are then bent outward, so as to lie next the stitching e, which connects the sweat-band to the ha body and between the band and the body, as will be understood from Fig. 2 of the drawings. The fastening 0 thus is concealed from view and does not hurt the head of the wearer of the hat, and makes a very secure attachment of the hook to the hat.

The metal hook A, at one end next the eye to which the ribbon or cord B is attached, is

portion of the attached formed with an open loop, a, into which the extremity a of the hook may be caught and held, as shown in Fig. 3, to allow the hat to be hung by the hook from a nail, clothes-rack hook or peg, or a door-knob shank, or a garment-button, or other support on which the hat may be caught; and when the end a of the hook is released from the loop a, and re mains so, the hat may be hung by the hook from the back of a chair, F, in front of and in full view of its owner in a theater, lecturehall, or other public place, and as will be understood from Fig. 1 of the drawings.

When the hat-hook is out of use, it may be very quickly slipped between the sweat-band and body of the hat, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 2 of the drawings, the ribbon or cord B then lying along the face of the sweatband; but, as the ribbon is thin, it will not inconvenience the wearer of the hat.

The hook-attaching device B is preferably a flat elastic band or ribbon; but it may be an ordinary rubber ring attached to the'hook A at one end and looped through a slit or small hole'in the sweat-band next the stitching e of the band. The device B may also be an inelastic ribbon or cord of any suitable kind or size; but the flat elastic band shown is preferred.

In adapting the hook device to ladies hats the crown-lining of the hat may serve to place the hook behind instead of the sweat-band of mens hats, as above described; and when no crown-lining is used a pieceof ribbon may be 1. A hat-hook device comprising a hook, A,

provided with a loop, a, and a free end, a", adapted to said loop, and ribbon or cord B,

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fixed at one end to the hook and connected at its other end to the hat, substantially as herein set forth.

body and sweat-band and bent from the ribbon between the body and band, substantially as IO shown and described.

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